Trying to find a Rosemary Clooney oldie (in tribute to her nephew George), but they all remind me of how I’d gag at them when my mother played them – when I was too young to appreciate it! Will keep looking.

The Rob Delaney tweet was so nasty – even though I cannot stand Condi’s enabling of the Bush administration, and even though I agree with what he tweeted – that I couldn’t bring myself to R/T it. #GettingSoft

This article is from Apr 30, and sheds some insight on President Obama’s mother and the gift he received while in Manila.

It mentions that PBO speaks Tagalog and Bahasa Malaysia with an Indonesian accent.

From the article:

The papers showed the lacework of tight, cursive handwriting of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, who died at age 52 in 1995. A scholar and anthropologist, she had spent her final years as a consultant to U.S. agencies and foundations aiding the world’s poor.

snip/

Dunham was the “key ingredient” of a women’s project that was going well, one colleague wrote. Cottage industries were flourishing because of her expertise, said another.

“She was a figure in her own right, respected by the people who worked with her,” said Robert M. Orr, the U.S. ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, who asked the ADB staff to search the microfiche archives for traces of Dunham’s work. “These records show that so clearly.”